Tuesday, 31 March 2020

31-03-20 Tuesday - Red Kite

Sunny but a bit of a chilly wind, glorious evening

Red Kite
Bar-headed Goose
Golden Plover
Dipper


31-03-2020 Kestrel Warmley Forrest Park (Chris Perry)
BRISTOL

Blaise Estate:
31-03-2020 Treecreeper Eastville Park (Allan Chard)
Eastville Park:
2 Treecreeper - nest material gathering

31-03-2020 Blue Tit St Andrews (John Rossetti)
St Andrews - garden:
Blue Tit - using the bijou swift box

Cranbrook Road:
1 Sparrowhawk, 3 Raven

Stockwood - garden: 30-03-2020
1 Herring Gull - over, several Woodpigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, several Magpie and Carrion Crow, 2 Blue Tit - checking out nest box, 2 Great Tit, 1 Blackcap (f), 1 Wren, several Blackbird, 1 Dunnock, several flocks of Goldfinch - max 6

St Georges - garden & Dundridge Lane:
1 Red Kite, 2 Greenfinch again today

Troopers Hill:
quiet - but several Chiffchaff

Redland - garden:
1 Blackcap (m)

Stoke Bishop:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Coal, Blue, Great and Long-tailed Tit, 4 Blackcap (2 each f&m) all enjoying the fat.

Canford Cemetery:
1 Herring Gull, 2 Lesser Black-backed Gull, 28 Woodpigeon, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Jay, 10 Magpie,4 Carrion Crow, 3 Coal Tit, 5 Blue Tit, 1 Long-tailed Tit, 3 Goldcrest - singing a very squeaky song, 9 Blackbird,  11 Robin, 3 Chaffinch, 1 Greenfinch, 4 Goldfinch

Sea Mills - R Avon:
2 Common Sandpiper, 6 Lesser Black-backed Gull

Portway:
lots of Chiffchaff and Blackcap - all singing

SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE

31-03-2020 Chiffchaff NP (Rod Holbrook)
New Passage/Northwick:
1 Chiffchaff

31-03-2020 Black-tailed Godwit NP (Lisa Presland)
Pilning Wetlands:
258 Black-tailed Godwit

Severn Beach:
1 Jay - heard

Yate - gardens and Kingsgate Park - though the railings as the park is closed:
2 Gadwall, 2 Little Grebe, 4 Chiffchaff, 4 Blackcap, 2 Mistle Thrush 1 Linnet

Yate - gardens and Coopers Lake:
9 Mallard, 1 Moorhen, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - drumming, 2 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap (f)

Bradley Stoke, Three Brooks NR:
2-3 Teal (f&m), 1 Collared Dove, 3 Jay, 3 Bullfinch (f&2m), 2 Greenfinch.

NORTH SOMERSET

Ashton Court:
1 Buzzard, 1 Green Woodpecker - yaffling somewhere, 2 Raven, Chiffchaff - everywhere, 2+ Nuthatch, quite a few Blackbird and Robin about too.

Ham Green - inc Heronry and Lake:
6 Mallard, 3 Tufted Duck, Grey Heron - at least 6 occupied nests, 1 Coot, 1 Green Woodpecker, 1 Nuthatch

Tyntesfield:
1 Sparrowhawk, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Chiffchaff, Blackcap, 2 Nuthatch, Treecreeper,

Nailsea East End - Nowhere Wood:
1 Great Spotted Woodpecker - drumming, 1 Nuthatch - calling and found mudding up a last years GS Woodpecker hole, Chiffchaff - singing.

Gordano - valley:
2 Canada Goose - very noisy, 1 Bar-headed Goose - very smart plumage, 2 Tufted Duck, 1 Red Kite, 3 Buzzard, 2 Lapwing, 2 Herring Gull, 1 Kestrel, 1 Chiffchaff - singing, 1 Blackcap (m) - singing

31-03-2020 Shelduck Dowlais (Howard Taffs)
Clevedon - Dowlais:
No sign of any vismig. 2 Shelduck, Mallard, 1 Little Egret, 16 Oystercatcher, 6 Lapwing, 1 Golden Plover, 4 Curlew, 4 Chiffchaff, 1 Blackcap, 17 Meadow Pipit, 8 Linnet,  Goldfinch

Weston-Super-Mare:
2 Sparrowhawk, 1 Buzzard, 1 Stock Dove - over high up, 1 Peregrine, 2 Raven, 1 Wheatear

31-03-2020 Goldfinch Worle (Dean Reeves)
Worle -garden:
2 Goldfinch

Banwell:
3 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, lots of Jackdaw and Rook, 4 Chiffchaff - singing, 1 Blackcap - singing,  1 Mistle Thrush - singing, 10 Chaffinch, 2 Bullfinch (pr), 5 Greenfinch, 8 Goldfinch,

BELOW M4 & BANES

Kingswood - garden:
2 Raven - over

Hanham - garden:
1 Cormorant - over, unusual, 1 Sparrowhawk, 2 Red Kite, 1 Buzzard, 2 Peregrine (f&m) - over

31-03-2020 Yellowhammer Wickwar (Alan Piper)
Wickwar:
Yellowhammer - heard over the last 4 days - finally !

Warmley Forest Park / Overscourt Woods:
2 Buzzard, 2 Stock Dove, 15 Woodpigeon, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 4 Green Woodpecker, 1 Kestrel, 2 Jay, 25+ Jackdaw, 7 Carrion Crow, 1 Raven, 11 Blue Tit, 20 Great Tit, 10 Long-tailed Tit (5pr), 23 Chiffchaff, 5 Blackcap, 1 Goldcrest, 14 Blackbird,  20+ Robin, 12 House Sparrow, 15 Dunnock, 6 Greenfinch,  30+ Goldfinch

Willsbridge:
1 Treecreeper, 1 Dipper - of note

31-03-2020 Great Spotted Woodpecker Twerton (Robert Hargreaves)
Twerton:
5 Stock Dove, 1 Buzzard, 1 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker, 2 Jay, 4 Magpie, 2 Coal Tit , 4 Chiffchaff, 2 Blackcap, 3 Nuthatch

31-03-2020 Raven Stanton Drew (Raoul Chandrasakera)
Stanton Drew:
5 Buzzard, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, Long-tailed Tit, Chiffchaff - singing, 2 Grey Wagtail - setting up home, Goldfinch


31-03-2020 Fieldfare & Redwing - are these the last ?? Compton Dando (Ian Stapp)
Compton Dando - walkabout:
2 Mallard - river, 12+ Pheasant, 1 Grey Heron - river, 1 Sparrowhawk, 5 Buzzard, 20+ Black-headed Gull, 5 Great Black- backed Gull, 7 Stock Dove, 50+ Woodpigeon, 2 Collared Dove, 1 Kingfisher, 2 Great Spotted Woodpecker, 2 Green Woodpecker - one calling a lot, 1 Kestrel, 250+ mixed Crows Jackdaw & Rooks (rookery with 6 nests Jackdaw collecting nesting material in the village), 2 Raven 4 Long-tailed Tit, 2 Blue Tit, 7 Great Tit, 7 Chiffchaff, lots of song, 4 Goldcrest, 1 Treecreeper, 8 Wren, 30+ Starling, 11 Blackbird - one with a lot of white breast feathers, 100+ Fieldfare with 40+ Redwing - sat in a tree lots of calling, 2 Song Thrush, 2 Mistle Thrush, 1 Wheatear - with sheep, 40+ House Sparrows - most in the village, 2 Grey Wagtail 4 Pied Wagtail, 20+ Chaffinch, 1 Bullfinch, 4 Greenfinch, 6 Yellowhammer - very showy, singing a lot, 2 Reed Bunting

RESERVOIRS

All closed

Reports: Roger Bingham, Paul Bowerman, Dru Brooke-Taylor, John Budd, Raoul Chandrasakera, Allan Chard, Mark Coller, Steve Curtis, Annie Davis, Paul Francis, Lee Gardiner, Paul Gregory, Robert Hargreaves, Martyn Hayes, Rod Holbrook, Angus Krouwel, Rob Laughton, Darren Pearce, Chris Perry, Alan Piper, Lisa Presland, Robert Proctor, Dean Reeves, Harvey Rose, John Rossetti, Carol Rushton, Tony Scott, Ian Stapp, Howard Taffs, Mike Thomas, John Thorogood, Martin Wightman, Roger White, blagdonlakebirds, CVRS, nslbirding, opsbirding, severnsidebirds, TBOSG